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What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE? (lemmings.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Platypus@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Ready player one.

That has to be one of the cringiest movies I've seen, is tries so hard, too hard with it's "WE LOVE YOU NERD, YOU'RE SO COOL FOR PLAYING GAMES AND GETTING THIS 80S REFERENCE" message and the whole "corporation bad, the people good" narrative seems written for toddlers... The fan service feels cheap and adds nothing to the story.

Finally, they trying to make the people believe that very attractive girl with a barely visible red tint spot on her face is "ugly"... Like wtf?

Yet it received decent reviews plus being one of the most successful movies of that year.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Forest Gump. The 1994 Best Picture nominees were some of the most highly competitive the Academy has ever had, and they went with the one that was just a straight-up terrible fucking movie. It has no value except as nostalgia bait for Americans and propaganda for those who want to believe in the myth of American individual exceptionalism.

Its musical score is also probably the worst thing I've ever had the misfortune of performing in an orchestra. Dull and repetitive.

And its most famous line is straight-up bullshit. I've heard the book does it differently, but the movie puts "something that kinda sounds deep to a 14 year old" over a level of rationality that stands up to 20 seconds of thought from an average person. A box of chocolates tells you precisely what you're going to be getting.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty much all of the Avengers films.

They aren’t engaging in any way. The characters are unintelligent and full of self importance. The whole franchise is Just loud noises and shark jumping.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Spirited Away

No consistent world, cringy behaviour of the main character, love story out of nowhere, you can't have a plot twist if you didn't have any previously established lore. It felt a bit like a dream that was trying to take itself seriously as an actual story.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

how dare you

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Spirited Away, and to some degree all Ghibli stuff leans very heavily on a shared cultural Mythos. It doesn't do exposition in the same way that zombies or angels aren't explained; everyone knows that stuff because we all grew up with a million references.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Joker

I thought it was pretentious, had no real story and pretty much just milked the gritty batman of the already not great nolan movies

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Joker is one of those movies that needed to be on its own. It doesn't feel like a Batman universe movie. It feels like a movie about some kind of mental illness that they slapped Batman related stuff on.

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But then as a stand alone movie on mental illness it is so mediocre. I feel that it's only palatable if you're into popcorn movies and have no reference of good psychological drama.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I related to this movie/character on a personal level. I haven't been able to fully explain why, maybe that's the gist of it : it expresses struggles that I haven't been able to put into words, yet I saw on film so eerily resembling mine

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is also one of the reasons I liked it. I knew exactly why it spoke to me, though. I was always very submissive in my life, unable to stand for myself. I was trying to change my approach when the movie came out. The scenes where he defends himself resonated with me deeply.

[–] Surp@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Much of this thread be like...

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[–] Azal@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

I mean... what did you expect? You came to a thread titled "What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?" It's going to be full of unpopular opinions that people are going to disagree with. Coming in and hoping to agree with everything is being that guy on a Lemmy thread.